I missed Bruce Bowen’s jersey retirement in March of 2012, regretted not going, and immediately decided that there was absolutely no way that I wouldn’t be at the AT&T Center when the time came to send Tim Duncan’s jersey into the rafters to join the Spurs royalty of Johnny Moore, James Silas, George Gervin, Sean Elliott, Avery Johnson, David Robinson and Bruce.
In some ways I had been looking forward to this event for a very long time and at the same time hoped it wouldn’t come until sometime after 2020, daydreaming of a 45-year old Duncan coming off the bench, using his wiles to give the Spurs an effective 10 to 15 minutes against guys half his age.